Smartphones now outnumber dumb phones

Smartphone owners in the U.S. now outnumber their fellow Americans that own a mobile phone that isn’t a smartphone, according to new data from Pew Research. 46% of Americans own a smartphone as of February 2012, marking an 11% jump from the 35% who reported owning such a device in May 2011; meanwhile, only 41% of Americans own a mobile phone that is not a smartphone.